Summary
When your PowerPoint file is lost for crashing, not responding, unsaved operation, overwritten, accidental deletion, corruption, etc. you should come here and acquire the best 6 skills to recover PowerPoint file right now.
Summary
When your PowerPoint file is lost for crashing, not responding, unsaved operation, overwritten, accidental deletion, corruption, etc. you should come here and acquire the best 6 skills to recover PowerPoint file right now.
PowerPoint is the easy and common way to present your work in the meeting or course. However, the sudden crash or corruption, even the accidental deletion will destroy your efforts to make the PowerPoint file.
There is nothing worse than the sinking feeling you get after losing something important, except maybe the thought of never getting it back.
The lost PowerPoint file can be recovered here. That's the point we will talk today.
You will get the best and efficient 6 approaches to getting the PowerPoint file recovery. There is always one approach is exactly for you.
Recover PowerPoint File
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Jump to the part that you need exactly.
The first method is the the easiest way to recover the PowerPoint file, whether your PowerPoint file is deleted, unsaved, disappeared, etc.
You just need to use the professional PowerPoint File Recovery software to help you the lost file.
Now, let's see how it works.
Step 1 Free download this software on your computer, install and run it immediately. In the main interface, click "Document" and select the hard drive where you lost the PowerPoint file. Click Scan to start to scan the lost document files including PowerPoint.
Step 2 In the scanning result, you will see the Document folder. Click it to find the PPT or PPTX folder.
Step 3 Click the PowerPoint folder, and checkmark the files that you want to restore. Click Recover to start to save the lost PowerPoint files to your computer.
Recycle Bin is the first place to store your deleted PowerPoint document. If you find your PowerPoint is lost, just go to Recycle Bin to see if it is there.
If it is there, just right click it, select Restore to drag it to its original place.
If you cannot find it in Recycle Bin, just move on the reading.
If your PowerPoint is unsaved because your system is forced shut-down or PowerPoint is not responding, etc. you could find back the unsaved PowerPoint file from Recent.
Now, let's check the steps.
Run a PowerPoint file, click File > Recent and you will see all recent presentations in the list. Select the one that you need and click Recover Unsaved Presentations.
You should note that once you close all the recent PowerPoint presentations, you will be given no change to open it gain.
If you did that, just move to the next solution.
AutoRecover is the built-in feature from all Microsoft Office products, including PowerPoint. It will automatically save your PowerPoint files in the frequent time.
For recovering the lost PowerPoint file, you just need to make sure it is enabled.
Step 1 Open a PowerPoint document, click File tab > Options.
Step 2 Choose Save options from the left, copy and paste the location of AutoRecover file location.
Step 3 Navigate the location to find your AutoRecover PowerPoint file, click it to see if it is the recovery PowerPoint file.
When you open the restored PowerPoint document, you may notice that there may be some data missed within it. Why?
It is because the restored PowerPoint file is saved in a certain time frequency. The changes you made may fail to be saved beyond the time.
When your PowerPoint file is saved over, and you may find you still want the old one, then you can refer to this method, recover PowerPoint file from temporary (temp) file.
Step 1 Find temporary files by clicking Start > Type CMD in the search box > Right click on CMD and choose Run as Administrator > Input %Temp% in the command prompt.
Step 2 Find the lost PowerPoint file, and copy it in another place. Change the extension to pptx or ppt as you created it before. Then you can recover the PowerPoint file again.
When you open the PowerPoint file, it will give you the option to restore the PowerPoint file from the last saving. Otherwise, you will find no one file.
If you overwrite your PowerPoint in a new document, then you need to restore the PowerPoint file from Windows backup files.
Previous versions are either copies of files and folders created by Windows Backup or copies of files and folders that Windows automatically saves as part of a restore point. You can use it to restore files or folders.
Find the replaced PowerPoint file, right click it to choose Restore previous versions. Then a pop-up window will be given to you to select the PowerPoint file version that you want to recover. Select it and click Open to view the PowerPoint recovery.
1. Does PowerPoint save automatically?
Yes. The new feature AutoSave in PowerPoint, Excel and Word will help you save files automatically, every 10 minutes, as you work.
2. Where are Autosaved PowerPoint files stored?
The temporary files for PowerPoint can be saved in "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\UnsavedFiles" on Windows 8/Windows 7/Windows Vista.
3. Can you recover a PowerPoint you didn't save?
Yes. You can go to File > Recent, and click on Recover Unsaved Presentations to recover unsaved file. If you have enabled AutoRecover function before, you can go to File > Options > Save, and check the AutoRecover file location to find the lost file.
Now we are coming to the last part in this post. This page mainly talks about the best 6 solutions to help you recover the lost or deleted PowerPoint files. Not everyone (the first five) method is your cup of tea, but you can choose the best one method (the last one method) to help you to get the PowerPoint document recovery.
I'd also like to hear from you: have you used any of these strategies to get PowerPoint file recovery?
Leave a comment and let me know.
January 11, 2021 17:21 / Updated by Amanda Brown to Recover Windows Data
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